Building a Web Page

There are usually two sets of tags for every command. The opening tag which tells the browser what to do, and the closing tag, which tells the browser to stop doing it. Closing tags are very important, or you end up with a big mess!!!

The first and last entry must be your HTML tags.

The HEAD tags come next.
Within this tag you place the title of your
homepage. You can name it whatever you would like but you must place it within the &ltHEAD&gt
tags, and then inside the head
tags place the &ltTITLE&gt tags, then what you want to name your page.

Also in the HEAD is the
META TAGS. This is what lets the Search Engines find your page.

Ok now on to the &ltbody&gt tag which is very important.
It controls the color of
your background, text, link, and other elements. It also allows you to place an image as a background on your page.
You can also use the atrabute LOGO= to have a logo show up in the little window when your page is saved in "Favs".
The body tag follows the &lt/head&gt tag.

Background
You use this in the body tag to give your homepage a background.
To do this you put the code in like this: &ltbody background="url of image" bgcolor="???"
text="???" link="???" vlink="???" alink="???"&gt

Text, link, vlink, bgcolor.
Ok, these are all going to be explained together because all you have to do at the end of each is add "color" to the end of each.
In the place of color you can put either the color code or you can put the "name of a color".
If you use the code then you must put the # sign right after the parenthesis like this: text="#ffffff".
If you decide to use the name of a color you just put it in: "white".

You will use the same tags in the body of your Homepage that you learned in Lesson One.

After all your TEXT, Images, and Links are in, and you're finishing up, you have the closing Body & HTML tags:

&lt/BODY&gt
&lt/HTML&gt

Now we get into text sizes.. how big do you want it?
There are two ways of doing it.. headers and font sizing...
Both are easy once you get the hang of it.

When viewing a page that has graphics that you would like to transload to your files, how do you find the URLs?
Well here is a
"Validator" tool that lets you get the URLs for graphics and links.
You can also view the HTML to see "How did they do that?"

When viewing a post or email, how do you get the URLs of images you see?
First, hit "Send". Then address it to yourself.
Now bring the curser down into the "Subject" section and delete what is there.
Then bring the curser down into the body section and hit "Return" twice.
Now hit "Alt" & "K", .
Now hold down the "Cmd" key and hit "A", "X", "arrow up", and "V".
This will put † in the subject line.
Scroll down to "Send" and click.
If you followed these steps, when you read the mail you will see all the code!

To Make Text Scroll:

The Marquee Code is only compatible with the MSIE browser. A Marquee is scrolling text across a page. It is eyecatching, but once again, not supported by all browsers.

<marquee>This is the code for Marquee.</marquee>

Users of MSIE will see scrolling text across the page. Netscape users will just see the text. It will not scroll, but if you center it, <center> </center> it should look fine with either browser.

This is a MARQUEE

To control the speed that it scrolls:
&ltmarquee scrollamount="2"&gtText Here&lt/marquee&gt
To control the direction:
&ltmarquee direction"left" or
"right"&gtText Here&lt/marquee&gt
To control the behavior(bounce from side to side or scroll): &ltmarqee behavior="slide" or
"alternate"&gtText Here&lt/marquee&gt